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Count Alexander Skrzynski, onetime Foreign Minister and later Premier of Poland, nodded bleakly. He was much slenderer than his opponent; he wore a silk soft shirt, open at the neck...
...complained that he could not hold his clubs. To remedy the last evil he donned a chamois glove, but, yielding to the dim British feeling that a man who plays golf without a coat might as well play without trousers, he kept his tweed jacket on. Hagen's silk shirt invited breezes. He smiled. At the seventy-first tee he lay on the ground for a brief rest, then rose, sent a perfect drive down the fairway. Mitchell sliced his iron shot. Hagen, standing blandly by, watched him make a hopeless try for recovery, then holed his own putt...
Temptation. Silk stockings at $10 a pair, lingerie at $25 to $75 a suit-Roumania's prohibitive tariff on de luxe articles forces these prices-tempt smugglers to squirm under boundary fences, elude border guards. In Bucharest complaints were loud last week...
...Hagen cool in silk; Mitchell hot in tweed. Which lay down...
...uleins of Berlin appeared recently with new parasols-sun-shades that ruffled in the wind like huge red roses. They were made of chicken feathers-the down of ordinary white hens, glued on the silk, painted red. In London, dead silver foxes have long been smartly worn around the neck. Recently Mrs. F. P. Long (Philadelphia) appeared in Hyde Park on a Sunday morning parade with a silver fox docilely scampering beside her on a leash. On a nearby street Lady Mary Paston was seen leashed to a small African tree bear...